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Dan Cooper
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Journalist, Broadcaster, Goof.

All flowers, in time, bend toward the sun.
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⚡📮Nice work @royal-mail.bsky.social, who have just announced the launch of a new fleet of over 100 micro electric vehicles, replacing 52 vans.

Better for the climate and for deliveries. This is exactly the kind of move we need to see for cities free of diesel vans!

#ElectrifyLondon
November 13, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"I'm a rigorous centre-right columnist for an apparently serious financial publication. I am a moderate, cosmopolitan conservative with a rigorous worldview. Also, I believe that Zohan Mamdani is the cause of the obdurate homelessness in San Francisco."
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Are you telling me screaming slurs in a room full of clapping edge lords is *not* a useful preparation for a career in comedy?
Watch US comic William Montgomery have an on-stage meltdown : News 2025 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
Watch US comic William Montgomery have an on-stage meltdown - Kill Bill regular booed off at Texas gig
www.chortle.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The Framework 16 is a groundbreaking machine, the first gaming laptop where the CPU and GPU have been meaningfully updated two years after it was launched.

I mean, you can shove a 5070 into this thing! If only it wasn't noisier than a helicopter taking off from inside a wind turbine.
Framework Laptop 16 (2025 upgrade) review: The RTX 5070 is the star
Framework launches a groundbreaking CPU and GPU upgrade for its existing gaming laptop.
www.engadget.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I can't quite remember if That Author was a villain or not.

But that their comeback tour is being heralded by the Times, Telegraph, Spiked and the Critic probably indicates something.
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I heard there was a secret digit,
When spake the youths all lost their shit.
But you don't really care for SIIIIIIXXX SEVVVVEEEEN do ya?
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
The poetry of the line "never gives up her dead" is all the more impactful when you learn Lake Eerie is too cold, still and deep to induce bacterial growth in corpses which would cause them to, eventually, float to the surface.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 5d
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ship, sank in Lake Superior
Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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There’s a good chance the British Prime Minister’s main adviser on AI is an OpenAI shareholder - but the government refuses to say whether she is.

🧵 1/5
November 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
@dennisperkins5.bsky.social I had no idea Joel Hodgson had ever been on SNL, thank you so much for referencing that in your latest review!
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
'By Dawn's Early Light' is great for all the usual reasons, but also because it puts Columbo on his opponent's turf. This, like 'A Matter of Honor' and 'Troubled Waters' rips him from his comfort zone, and it's all the better for it.
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Well, after seeing [First Episode of new Prestige TV show], turns out it's not just the '90s...
I'm suddenly fascinated at how many sci-fi properties in the '90s used collective consciousness as a plot point. Was there a resurgence in interest in Jungian psychology in the late '80s that would have trickled down? I can't seem to find any literature that would hint at it.
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I always thought The Line was daft, but it's not until you get to the visualizations of its scale against the real world that you see how hysterically daft it truly is.
End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
ig.ft.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Apple needs to make a low-cost laptop to compete with Chromebooks, which has eaten its lunch in the education market!"

Wal*Mart sells a $599 M1 MacBook Air that, even five years on, would whip the trousers from the fanciest Chromebook on sale.
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Fascinating to see a Right wing think tank be this open about how it doesn't care about enabling young parents to pursue opportunities in labour markets.
policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...
November 3, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Your Halloween costume is the word “Sexy” followed by the last thing you Googled.

I’m sexy federal minimum requirements for nuclear containment vessels.
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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All that I ask is that the culture secretary not ask questions which reveal she couldn’t tell you who *this year*’s Bafta shortlistees and winners were.
Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?
October 31, 2025 at 11:36 AM
The more the BBC and Disney brief against each other, the harder it is to see what anyone was thinking when the pair entered into the co-pro deal in the first place.
Why Disney Ditched ‘Doctor Who’: Sources Say Ratings, Big Ticket Budget & MAGA Politics Were Factors In BBC Deal Failing To Regenerate
The BBC confirmed on Tuesday that its 'Doctor Who' co-production deal with Disney had vaporized. What went wrong on the series starring Ncuti Gatwa?
deadline.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I mean, it's a shocker.
I can't believe Doctor Who is back so soon
Doctor Who will be back in 2026 with a Christmas special and, probably afterward, a new series, too.
www.engadget.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I held off buying the s13 box set for reasons unknown even to me. But now I’m deeply gratified that I didn’t.
Other people are carrying out their own #DoctorWho Season 13 Blu-ray comparisons. Thoughts? imgsli.com/NDI0NjAx
October 27, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I didn't realize this was an image from the Louvre Heist, and instead it was one from the Times' recent "Meet the Young Conservatives" that I'd missed on my initial reading.
October 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
No matter where OpenAI sources its chips from, they all inevitably come from the same company. Let's talk about that.
October 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Just finished a prestige TV series where Jonathan Pryce played a character with Alzheimer’s.

Then started watching a film where Jonathan Pryce played a character with Alzheimer’s.

Now watching a YouTube clip of Jonathan Pryce playing a character with Alzheimer’s.
October 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
We haven’t yet reached out to Tommy Tallarico’s mum.

But we suspect she’s proud of her son.
October 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Oooh, how exciting — the latest episode of Idiot Wind is out, and there's a gorgeous and funny-sounding guy by the name of Dan Cooper in it.
S6E4 - Exploring & Adventure | Idiot Wind Comedy Panel Show | Idiot Wind Comedy Panel Show
shows.acast.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
The worst part is, I understand every word of this.
Almost immediately finding out one of the Bad Dr Who Cosplay Young Tories whose clothes we were making fun of wants to legalise sisterfucking is like a really quick Milkshake Duck if instead of drinking milkshake, the duck had been filmed masturbating into a neighbour's wheelie bin
October 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM