IceColdCole
@icecoldcole.bsky.social
European tofu-eating wokerati. Spreadsheet jockey. Über-sarcastic iconoclast. Hawk. "Humans, not my favourite species" *insert - all views own - blurb here*
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WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
December 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
WHY ARE YOU ANNOYED THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED TO HAPPEN
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
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Magnum's masculinity isn't ideological. He simply *is* a sexy, goofy, confident icon of his gender without telling us about it.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Magnum's masculinity isn't ideological. He simply *is* a sexy, goofy, confident icon of his gender without telling us about it.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
Contrast to Zuckerberg or Joe Lonsdale calling for ever more manliness, like it is a scarce resource they can hoard like a dragon.
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my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
December 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
my great-grandparents arrived in the UK in the 1890s with nothing.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
they sold pickles from the front room window, took in laundry, worked as tailors.
their children were nurses, teachers, salesmen.
their grandchildren were professors, designers, opticians, doctors, magistrates, entrepreneurs.
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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New game just dropped:
Epstein Island, or Modest Dwelling of Person Complaining in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax?
Epstein Island, or Modest Dwelling of Person Complaining in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax?
December 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New game just dropped:
Epstein Island, or Modest Dwelling of Person Complaining in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax?
Epstein Island, or Modest Dwelling of Person Complaining in the Telegraph about the Mansion Tax?
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Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Just cancel your Netflix subscription and stop buying avocados. You'll be fine
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And don't say "they use the same local services". Council tax is only slightly about local services. Mostly it's funding social care.
November 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
And don't say "they use the same local services". Council tax is only slightly about local services. Mostly it's funding social care.
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The self-pitying articles, bemoaning the decline in [country's] attractiveness to migrants, which will appear in newspapers that have spent years whipping up anti-migrant sentiment are going to be particularly hard to stomach.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The self-pitying articles, bemoaning the decline in [country's] attractiveness to migrants, which will appear in newspapers that have spent years whipping up anti-migrant sentiment are going to be particularly hard to stomach.
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I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think at this point if you're including Diane Abbott - a woman who has never held government office, has been a backbencher since 2020, and is scarcely a government ally - on your list of political wrongdoers, we all know exactly what your real concerns are
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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
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Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words just leave written in white
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Meanwhile, on X - Grok is denying the Holocaust... and all our institutions and politicians and media giants just stay there like that's perfectly OK.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
What does it take to get people to leave that horror show??? Seriously.
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A Labour Party which takes middle class professionals’ money, comes after their job perks, and rejects their values, then asks “why are these people turning against us?”
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Labour Party which takes middle class professionals’ money, comes after their job perks, and rejects their values, then asks “why are these people turning against us?”
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Renewable energy has lefty vibes and so we are going to gut it in favour of AI which is right-wing coded if significantly less useful, and reliant on the energy generation we're going to fail to deliver now because: see start of this sentence.
Still, how owned are the libs?
Still, how owned are the libs?
I'm kind of baffled how the "moderates" have apparently all decided to turn against climate policy at once, just as China reaches green electrostate liftoff mode. I thought these people were all about National Greatness and making Hard Choices
November 15, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Renewable energy has lefty vibes and so we are going to gut it in favour of AI which is right-wing coded if significantly less useful, and reliant on the energy generation we're going to fail to deliver now because: see start of this sentence.
Still, how owned are the libs?
Still, how owned are the libs?
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"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
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There is a small chance that the AI investment pays off a lot AND that is somehow monetized and the IP protectable. There is an extremely large chance that solar pays off [it's paying off right now] for China and the rest of us [relative to the counterfactual carbon emissions.
November 7, 2025 at 9:15 AM
There is a small chance that the AI investment pays off a lot AND that is somehow monetized and the IP protectable. There is an extremely large chance that solar pays off [it's paying off right now] for China and the rest of us [relative to the counterfactual carbon emissions.
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Here is one month's worth of oil. ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Here is one month's worth of oil. ~AA
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Reform wants it both ways: the country is either being overtaken by people who come from elsewhere or they are a minority being over represented
October 26, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Reform wants it both ways: the country is either being overtaken by people who come from elsewhere or they are a minority being over represented
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We’re the party of the family. But we’ll deport your spouse for claiming child benefit.
We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent.
We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.
We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent.
We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 7:05 AM
We’re the party of the family. But we’ll deport your spouse for claiming child benefit.
We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent.
We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.
We’re the party of traditional values. But we’ll deport you if you become a stay-at-home parent.
We’re the party for pensioners. But we’ll deport you if you retire on less than 150% of average pensioner income.
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It’s the witch’s dunking stool approach to immigration: if you didn’t access social security, you don’t have leave to remain and should be deported. If you did access social security, you have leave to remain, and so should be deported.
Also this is just the sheerest nonsense from Katie Lam, bc you won’t have accessed social security unless the conditions of your stay permitted it, & if you have indefinite leave to remain, you don’t have any conditions (as to time, work, benefits) - that’s literally part of the definition of ILR 1/
Here is the clip.
- The interviewer claims not to know the policy.
- The Tory frontbencher clearly misleads with "because those are not the conditions on which you came"
- The interviewer twice sums up the policy misleadingly, to say it is much narrower than it it
bsky.app/profile/raks...
- The interviewer claims not to know the policy.
- The Tory frontbencher clearly misleads with "because those are not the conditions on which you came"
- The interviewer twice sums up the policy misleadingly, to say it is much narrower than it it
bsky.app/profile/raks...
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
It’s the witch’s dunking stool approach to immigration: if you didn’t access social security, you don’t have leave to remain and should be deported. If you did access social security, you have leave to remain, and so should be deported.
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This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing
October 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
This averages out at a violation roughly every four hours, around the clock, continuously since 10 October. At what point do we stop calling it a ceasefire when Israel has just literally not ceased firing
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Nobody not in an overtly racist NF/BNP party supported this principle articulated by Lam (past pledges to foreigners don't count) in 1971-3, 1981-3 or 2016-2020
So Nigel Farage, Katie Lam + Philp are *objectively* more hardline than Enoch Powell/Monday Club on the forced removal of settled migrants
So Nigel Farage, Katie Lam + Philp are *objectively* more hardline than Enoch Powell/Monday Club on the forced removal of settled migrants
October 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nobody not in an overtly racist NF/BNP party supported this principle articulated by Lam (past pledges to foreigners don't count) in 1971-3, 1981-3 or 2016-2020
So Nigel Farage, Katie Lam + Philp are *objectively* more hardline than Enoch Powell/Monday Club on the forced removal of settled migrants
So Nigel Farage, Katie Lam + Philp are *objectively* more hardline than Enoch Powell/Monday Club on the forced removal of settled migrants
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Basically every politico and chatterati needs to be allocated a lower league football team who they have to watch at a few random away games, then they'll see a few lesser parts of the country and discover plenty that can be improved but a lot that shows we aren't broken
October 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Basically every politico and chatterati needs to be allocated a lower league football team who they have to watch at a few random away games, then they'll see a few lesser parts of the country and discover plenty that can be improved but a lot that shows we aren't broken
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when you forget to log into your sock puppet account before doing a racism.
It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences
October 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
when you forget to log into your sock puppet account before doing a racism.