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Nathaniel Tapley

@thatnatt.bsky.social

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Terrible news, chums... Gleeful Beast, head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose! He-flapper.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · Nov 13

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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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 9h

This is the lesson of 2025

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 11h

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 15h

How I respond when people ask me why I write horror and not 'proper' literature

Intertitle reads "Anybody can write the stuff this critic means. Mine is the work of genius---real blood curdling situations---plot and counterplot---hair raisers!"

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Gleeful Beasts @gleefulbeasts.bsky.social · 18h

Some alphabet lessons teach letters. Others spiral into identity crises.

Guess which the Gonk picked. 👀

👀 SUB TO OUR CHANNEL - New vids weekly!
https://www.youtube.com/@GleefulBeasts

#Animation #UnrealEngine #Puppets #Music #ComedyVideo

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Ryan Corniel @dukegunston.bsky.social · 19h

I was lucky enough to have a small thing coming up in a new Smiling Friends episode. Until then, here's Allan (not the thing I made for the show, but still fun to play with!) 😊

#UnrealEngine #RealTime #SmilingFriends

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Leder Games @leder.games · 19h

Aye, 'tis a glorious day when you can play Ahoy ... for FREE on Board Game Arena!

Gather ye crew from far and wide and get a game going! bit.ly/AhoyOnBGA

A close-up of the ahoy board game cover, featuring sharks and other sea creatures as pirates.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 19h

We do a podcast about cartoons, and hoe to make cartoons. This week we had Steve Smith from Beakus (Big Lizard) telling us all about what proportion of your budget you can expect to get from a public service broadcaster. HINT: Not very much. Subscribe to the Sparklegoose Cartoon Podcast!

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 1d

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 2d

We're part of Netflix's Spooky Season For Kids, which justifies the number of meetings @rathergood.bsky.social had to have to decide slime colour, so that it didn't look too much like jizz.

Netflix screenshot of Bad Dinosaurs episode: The Sliming, featuring two small, pink dinosaurs looking at a splat of green slime.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 1d

Okay, The Goofy Movie was not as good as you all said.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 2d

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 3d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 2d

We're part of Netflix's Spooky Season For Kids, which justifies the number of meetings @rathergood.bsky.social had to have to decide slime colour, so that it didn't look too much like jizz.

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SJ @wintermeer.bsky.social · 4d

It even works for our resident ichtyologists:

If you see the maw open wide,
And there is pharyngial jaw inside,
That's a Moray!

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like spaghetti
But it's under a jetty...

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Will (but not of the people) @willhardt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a long gourd
And it lives in a warm Fjord,
That's a Moray.

Need to be accurate with the salinity and water temperature.

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a snake
But it lives in a lake
That's a moray

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

That's much better.

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 5d

🎶 When you've razor sharp teeth,
And you live on a reef,
That's a moray,
In your undersea lairs,
You're the stuff of nightmares,
That's a moray🎶

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June Lewins @joonloons.bsky.social · 5d

We used to sing this when scuba diving -

If you put your hand in a crack
And you don't get it back
That's a moray

Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a snake
But it lives in a lake
That's a moray

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Saeed Khan @saeedwkhan.bsky.social · 5d

I like the wordplay but morays live in salt water. So oceans, seas etc.

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 5d

If it’s not in the song
But it’s still very long
That’s a lamprey

Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a snake
But it lives in a lake
That's a moray

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Robinson posted a neo-Nazi blog that accused me and my fellow Jews Jack Straw and Barbara Roche of conspiring to flood the UK with immigrants.

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

Tommy Robinson invited to Israel by Amichai Chikli the Minister of Diaspora Affairs.

In the wake of the horrific Manchester terrorist
attack, Israel and the Jewish people stand firmly
with our allies in the United Kingdom.

On behalf of the State of Israel, I am proud to
host British patriot @TRobinsonNewEra who will
visit Israel in mid-October.

Tommy is a courageous leader on the front line
against radical Islam.

At a time when Jews across Europe face rising
antisemitism, it is vital to strengthen bonds with
allies who refuse to be silent.

He has proven himself a true friend of Israel and
the Jewish people, unafraid to speak the truth
and confront hate.

Israel will always stand with the Jewish
community and our allies worldwide. Together
with friends like Tommy Robinson, we will build
stronger bridges of solidarity, fight terror,

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Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social · 5d

If it looks like a snake
But it lives in a lake
That's a moray

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Katherine Hardy @kardyology.bsky.social · 6d

Invest in the arts.

Buy-to-let businesses have become the largest single type of business in the UK this is why we are not productive, we are cannibalising ourselves.
www.ft.com/content/efed...

Rachel Reeves braced for huge hole in UK public finances after productivity downgrade

New OBR forecasts set to spark fierce dispute between Labour and Conservatives

www.ft.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 8d

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

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