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DreamsOfGerontius

@dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social
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Games and puzzles hobbyist for life at dreamsofgerontius.com Physicist and European Patent Attorney for the last 25 years, currently in the nuclear fusion industry

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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 23h
Zuul: Choose the form of your destructor! OpenAI: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man
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Ghost Busters Stay Put
ALT: Ghost Busters Stay Put
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is there a blue tinge to his skin under the presumably fake tan? I wonder if he's on colloidal silver!
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New rule: you only call it Super Intelligence if it's smarter than you
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 24/09/2026
NEWS! Scientists reclassify the shortest measurable unit of time as that which occurs between Tommy Robinson's mate being arrested and the launch of his fundraising page buff.ly/pQI5HD4
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Scientists reclassify the shortest measurable unit of time as that which occurs between Tommy Robinson’s mate being arrested and the launch of his fundraising page
The world of physics is in shock after scientists announced the reclassification of the shortest measurable unit of time following the arrest of Tommy Robinson’s mate Danny Tommo. Previously,…
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is great, though I suspect experiencing the waves for real would not be as calming!
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 23/09/2026
I wrote about how Trump is treating presidential power like it's his own possession and using it to punish blue states — but also about how at least he's promised lots of cash for all of us. www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Difficult to imagine a less useful mnemonic than this Not only does the "A" really mean "Cover", it's not even an ordered sequence of actions. I wonder if @rlssuk.bsky.social can shed light on whether this mess was a consequence of AI or "committee brainstorming"? Difficult to tell
"Splash safely" promo with S.A.F.E. mnemonic for 
Supervise 
After use cover it
Fence it
Empty it
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
On top of the bestiality and "look in the White House" jokes this is eliciting: "Manhunt" is a noun
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The most revealing thing here is the applause. These people only speak to vetted, friendly audiences
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Left out "and my kids have rickets" but otherwise a perfect distillation of the end point of any "make x great again" movement
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Astonishing concept for an eclipse photo montage!
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are inapt metaphors the new click bait? Are the navy feeling jetlagged?
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So, what did that UK emergency alert say? I was too busy stabbing at the phone to make the awful buzzing sound stop that I didn't read it and then it vanished with no apparent way to view it in silence
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 14/08/2026
NEWS! Nigel Farage celebrates successfully spending £250,000 of our money to pause investigation into his finances for five weeks newsthump.com/2026/08/14/n...
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Nigel Farage celebrates successfully spending £250,000 of our money to pause investigation into his finances for five weeks
Nigel Farage is today celebrating the successful conclusion of an estimated £250,000 taxpayer-funded by-election which achieved the important democratic objective of postponing an investigation int…
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Most succinct summary of this shit show I've seen so far...
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I also think the comparison of vaccine hesitancy, as a consequence of misinformation, with hesitancy around antiretrovirals for HIV is extremely apt given the terrifying parallels between what's happening in the US now vs South Africa's murderous descent into AIDS denialism 20 years ago
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Made myself a pinhole camera for the eclipse today. Should've done the maths first. Needed it to be over a metre long for a reasonably sized image! Oops. Still, fun craft project
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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Gardening motivation for this week's #MondayMotivation. 🌱
Meme by Rdg Sp8. Plants are actually farming us by giving us oxygen daily until we die and decompose so they can consume us.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Almost total solar eclipse in UK this Wednesday at ~6pm. Woo!
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Yes I acknowledge it makes sense in context but “I need my car to meet criminals” is now my favourite basis for an attempted exceptional hardship plea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Best-selling crime author Lynda La Plante has been disqualified from driving for six months, despite tearfully telling the court a ban would end her writing career.
The 83-year-old author and screenwriter told Lavender Hill Magistrates' Court she needed her car to meet criminals and sources for research into her next works of fiction.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I'm closer to saying "OFFS" than "Oops", but oops also works on multiple levels
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Fucking fucks
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My worlds have collided. An @angierasmussen.bsky.social and @zeteo.com team-up open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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Tulsi, Trump, and the War on Fauci – Part 1: The Smear Campaign
In this in-depth two-part series, leading virologist Angela Rasmussen breaks down the Trump and the GOP's attempt to imprison Anthony Fauci - and the potential dangerous implications for all of us.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
My kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now the Saudis have a nuclear program.
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 24/07/2026
NEWS! 'If we let them tax people worth more than £10m, where does it end?' asks Reform voter still two years from paying off his sofa newsthump.com/2026/07/24/i...
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‘If we let them tax people worth more than £10m, where does it end?’ asks Reform voter still two years from paying off his sofa
A Reform supporter has warned that Andy Burnham’s refusal to immediately rule out higher taxes on people worth more than £10m could have catastrophic consequences for ordinary Britons who one…
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The Establishment vs Comedians never gets old #countbinface
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump: The Strait of Hormuz is open! Shipping:
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TR Roll
Alt: Tomb Raider epic trapped hallway
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Farage complains to the electrol committee that local residents in #Clacton are being intimidated by @countbinface.bsky.social activists
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
At least if one of them crash lands on the mall no tourists will get hurt.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Essential reading in anticipation of whatever tomorrow will bring
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I had a dream where Trump died today (3 July) and Pirro got a grand jury to indict every democrat who set off fireworks tomorrow
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I spent like 10 seconds trying to work out what "sim" was a coded insult in Gen Z lingo
A headline: "Psychology says parents who like to play board games at home with their kids, friends or family aren't sim"
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And a dangerous joke when"you fuck one couch..." would slay them
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Almost called it. Thought Kavanaugh might have the balls on this case, but turns out he's more akin to Hitler than I realised
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 30/06/2026
NEWS! Nursery teacher says woke brigade 'has gone too far' after toddler identifies as a little teapot
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Nursery teacher says woke brigade ‘has gone too far’ after toddler identifies as a little teapot
A nursery school teacher has been left stunned and confused after a small child declared themselves to be a little teapot, short and stout.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Sorry, America, but you're going to have to have a TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL MUSEUM when this is over just so you've got somewhere to dump all this shite
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just came across a digital doorbell that provides zero visual cues to tell you to "swipe to ring", contrary to the "out of plane" interaction of every other knocker and doorbell since the dawn of humanity. I swear it's not AI or computers that will be the end of civilization, but UI designers.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com
Title: "In shops now: Classic literature with added mathematics!"

Image: Four book covers.

The Prime Number of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark.
Empire of the Sum, by JG Ballard.
Wuthering Heights × lengths × widths, by Emily Bronte.
The Remains Of the Data by Kazuo Ishiguro.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This swimming motion has to be seen in action! Incredible
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 21/06/2026
Photoshop that shows Trump and the lawnmower kid standing in the green reflecting pool. Trump is yelling at the kid. They're both submerged up to their knees in the green water. Original pool photo by Graeme Sloan; original Trump/kid photo from Getty.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The last A/C unit available in the UK
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains.
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Today learned there's an AI data centre initiative who've called themselves "OCP", which is jaw-droppingly ill-judged in my cultural reference frame. Not sure if it was done knowingly or if nobody involved is over the age of 30
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
"What language did you conduct this conversation in, Donald?" youtu.be/7Bq_dkPkQUU?...
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The Day Today - Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan
YouTube video by Jmagunda
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
[Scene is an office with OpenAI logo on the wall. SAM ALTMAN is talking to his other founders]. 

ALTMAN:
Well done guys…
 We’ve built a robot that might take everyone’s job, steal all the art,
boil the seas, turn everyone thick, and drag the world into a posthuman nightmare!

FOUNDER 1:
Er - Sam…
Why is that… good?

ALTMAN:
Because if we don’t, then someone else will make it, but be a bit less sad about that.

FOUNDER 1:
Right.
So! What shall we tell the public ahead of the IPO…?

ALTMAN:
Well, I think I should do this face:

 [Altman makes his dolorous slow-loris-looking-at-the-ceiling-in-sad-reflection face]

...And then talk a lot about AI destroying the world. 

FOUNDER 2:
Yes that’s good that sounds nice.

FOUNDER 1:
And that will make the public give us $60 billion?

ALTMAN:
Ah - here’s the clever bit. Just before the IPO I’ll say…

“Don’t worry everyone, I think I might be talking bollocks.” 

FOUNDER 1:
Will they still give us the money?

ALTMAN:
Yes.

[Ends]
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DreamsOfGerontius @dreamsofgerontius.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
That's an extended metaphor that will be forever seared into my brain!
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