Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 52mstatic.klipy.comDan Levy: Umm, I Don't Remember Saying ThatALT: Dan Levy: Umm, I Don't Remember Saying That 000
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 12h#OTD in 1938. Neville Chamberlain deals with "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing" and co-signs the Munich Agreement, giving in to Hitler's demands and handing him large parts of Czechoslovakia. And thereby making my great-grandparents and grandparents Germans. 173
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14hThe White House accord on AI that was signed by all the big tech oligarchs today misspells United States as “Unites States.” 37961111688
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 11hMeanwhile the person who has enough major abundance in his own bank account to buy whole countries, and who at the same time cut USAID support from large parts of the developing world. 152
Reposted by Matthias EberlStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471166345
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 11hMeanwhile the person who has enough major abundance in his own bank account to buy whole countries, and who at the same time cut USAID support from large parts of the developing world. 152
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 12h#OTD in 1938. Neville Chamberlain deals with "a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing" and co-signs the Munich Agreement, giving in to Hitler's demands and handing him large parts of Czechoslovakia. And thereby making my great-grandparents and grandparents Germans. 173
Reposted by Matthias EberlRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Why might that be, Telegraph? 40631152
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Why doesn't he just end it then? Should be easy. I mean it only took him 24 hours to end the war in Ukraine. 020
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I see young people. All the time. They're everywhere. Must be freshers' week. 231
Reposted by Matthias EberlAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"We deserve to be told the truth..." 3840470
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I see young people. All the time. They're everywhere. Must be freshers' week. 231
Reposted by Matthias EberlRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration. 14433152
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That moment in history when we converted one of the most important libraries in the world into a chatbot. 472
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026With the same logic Ed Miliband, Tony Blair and Boris Johnson aren't English either. As well as King Charles, Harry Kane, George Michael, Emma Watson, Helen Mirren, George Orwell and Winston Churchill. 1123
Reposted by Matthias EberlLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359711996
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026That moment in history when we converted one of the most important libraries in the world into a chatbot. 472
Reposted by Matthias EberlOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none. 23132681200
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This thread should be read in full on TV and radio every day for the next six months, and be mandatory reading for everyone who wants to keep their social media accounts. 👇🏻 062
Reposted by Matthias EberlMadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪 15311136
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This thread should be read in full on TV and radio every day for the next six months, and be mandatory reading for everyone who wants to keep their social media accounts. 👇🏻 062
Reposted by Matthias EberlEmma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33 321001534
Reposted by Matthias EberlAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack. 62595145
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026With the same logic Ed Miliband, Tony Blair and Boris Johnson aren't English either. As well as King Charles, Harry Kane, George Michael, Emma Watson, Helen Mirren, George Orwell and Winston Churchill. 1123
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile in North Korea where the leader is deemed infallible. 143
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Meanwhile in North Korea where the leader is deemed infallible. 143
Reposted by Matthias EberlPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Now talk about Musk and X. Every word applies to them, and you stay on his platform. 311339
Reposted by Matthias EberlAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026Zelenskyy: "As early as next year, there is already a real possibility that AI, not people, will decide what happens on the battlefield. And we need peace before we reach that point." 472709687
Reposted by Matthias EberlBeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026something has gone very, very wrong with the UK 1153332750
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Turns out they didn't really tell the truth when they said that British citizens living in the EU had nothing to fear from Brexit. In the meantime Stuart, Moynihan, Elliott and Morrissey have been promoted to the House of Lords. 56227
Reposted by Matthias EberlSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...independent.co.ukBrexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David MilibandExclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage 511513543
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Meanwhile in the country that made some pretty dismal political choices over the past ten years, deliberately and needlessly wrecked the economy by leaving the largest single market in the world, and encouraged the rise of populism, corruption and racism. I'm glad they got their priorities right.bbc.co.ukUK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPsIt comes after the UK's entry Look Mum No Computer came last in May's final, scoring just one point. 0309
Reposted by Matthias EberlCharlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026literally thousands of jobs in higher education were cut *last year alone* and there's been almost no media coverage and no government action 8698219
Reposted by Matthias EberlWendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this might be the single worst thing ever uttered at a UN General Assembly certainly the worst thing said by the leader of a purported democracy 641401333
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A reminder that back in 1833 the British government did compensate former slaves, and that it took almost 200 years to pay off the substantial debts from this noble gesture. Sorry, my wrong. Did I say slaves? I meant slave owners. 092
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's not going to be long now before the Earth fundamentally rejects humans. 1156
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A reminder that back in 1833 the British government did compensate former slaves, and that it took almost 200 years to pay off the substantial debts from this noble gesture. Sorry, my wrong. Did I say slaves? I meant slave owners. 092
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026It's not going to be long now before the Earth fundamentally rejects humans. 1156
Reposted by Matthias EberlRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before. 352160635286
Reposted by Matthias EberlDmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault. 433131788
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Now why exactly would anyone need a highly exposed 250 ft tall structure to house, store and use large quantities of sniper ammunition in the heart of Washington DC?theguardian.comTrump claims triumphal arch will serve as a ‘top grade military complex’ to store weaponsUS president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the ‘strong request’ of the US military 063
Reposted by Matthias EberlOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026What surprises me more is that the media happily trot out their words and opinions without pointing this essential paradox out. 381175211
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Turns out they didn't really tell the truth when they said that British citizens living in the EU had nothing to fear from Brexit. In the meantime Stuart, Moynihan, Elliott and Morrissey have been promoted to the House of Lords. 56227
Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Now why exactly would anyone need a highly exposed 250 ft tall structure to house, store and use large quantities of sniper ammunition in the heart of Washington DC?theguardian.comTrump claims triumphal arch will serve as a ‘top grade military complex’ to store weaponsUS president on Truth Social claims his new plan for the 250ft arch comes at the ‘strong request’ of the US military 063
Reposted by Matthias EberlSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred. 1161821724
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026We are living in a world in which the US Health Secretary shares a stage with, and openly endorses, a fraudulent quack whose medical licence was revoked for fabricating research and whose made-up findings have been debunked multiple times since.theguardian.comRFK Jr promises anti-vaxxers a ‘friend at the White House’ amid deadly measles outbreakThe US health secretary added that he would’ve made sweeping changes ‘on day one’ but he had to follow the law 0102
Reposted by Matthias EberlMatthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"Dad?" "Yes, son." "Is it true that there once was a simple and safe way to prevent these outbreaks?" "We used to call it 'vaccination', it protected people throughout their whole lives. And not only against measles." "I miss my friends." 041