Reposted by Nick CotterHelen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 11hThe first school visit, 1972 Artist: Harry Wingfield 922422
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 23hstatic.klipy.comBernard Black: Everything I Expected And LessAlt: Bernard Black: Everything I Expected And Less 000
Reposted by Nick CotterPaul Kindling @paulkindling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026With a membership greater than 230,000, less than 1% of the party membership voted on this. A little over 0.4% voted for it and a little under 0.4% voted against it. The effect of the vote on the whole party will be huge. I have questions. So many questions. 3376
Reposted by Nick Cotterjarjarforspeaker.bsky.social @jarjarforspeaker.bsky.social · 04/10/2026You have to separate effective altruism (mosquito nets are a better use of funds than "raising awareness") from effective altruism (the only thing that matters is ensuring that we have a galaxy-spanning civilization of a quadrillion quadrillion people in the year 5000). 310914
Reposted by Nick CotterAstrid @astridsramblings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Whatever party you may support, or none, this is a sad day for progressive politics and the effects of it will be felt across politics and policy as the threat of a left challenger on social justice issues will dissipate due to toxicity 1304
Reposted by Nick Cotter👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 04/10/2026well, it was nice having a solidly left wing party for the thirty seconds that it lasted 51557
Reposted by Nick CotterATPcraft @atpcraft.at · 03/10/2026everyone please welcome @stream.place on the server (thanks to @lenooby09.twinkers.online) 2314
Reposted by Nick CotterSomersetWhovian 💙 🇺🇦 @clairecopperman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I've always found the US fraternity and sorority system to be deeply weird, but I didn't know this 👇. You couldn't design a more perfect system for enabling SA if you tried. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 4136
Reposted by Nick CotterDavid J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026In spite of being of the correct generation to have grown up while "Peanuts" was still in active publication, it's always a little surreal to be reminded that the most popular comic strip in the English-speaking world for fifty solid years was about an eight-year-old with clinical depression. 191378197
Reposted by Nick CotterFinal Friztination @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Hi, I'm Baloo. Life in the jungle is easy! Forget about your worries! Now, here is a list of specific instructions in order to not hurt yourself eating a pear. 2204
Reposted by Nick CotterMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Another misty dawn by the Exeter canal. You have to grab these fleeting moments, there aren’t that many of them in a year 1239532
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026The cats are out and about, in their absence here is an earlier photo of Milo in grand style #caturday 020
Reposted by Nick CotterNeil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026 0206
Reposted by Nick CotterAndrew R @excelpope.net · 03/10/2026Sure, he says this now, but as soon as there's a robot with 20 metre long arms, that can paint the whole ceiling in 15 seconds he'll change his tune. 4153
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026youtube.comAI CEO Interviews (2026)Interview with the AI leaders signing 'constitution' commitment with Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang - aired on © The AI CEO 2026. Based on CNN interview and using Bloomberg Interview… 000
Reposted by Nick CotterLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026I implore all cis people to read this. 17980419
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026Imperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game - Monthly Reviewmonthlyreview.orgImperialism in a Full World: Neomercantilism and the Return of the Zero-Sum Game - Monthly ReviewSince the wane of mercantilism in Europe, conceptions of wealth, trade, and productivity have also changed: from one of a zero-sum game reliant only on the productivity of land, to... READ MORE 000
Reposted by Nick CotterPaul Litchfield @paullitchfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Like they’ve colourised some WWII footage of shell shocked Sergeant Major. 128015
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026“An account’s security is still dictated by the weakest recovery method: SMS, email links, security questions, and so on.”hawksley.devI don't like passkeys | Ethan HawksleyWhy passkeys are a step back for personal security: examining account lockout risks, platform lock-in, hardware key limits, and fragile recovery flows. 000
Reposted by Nick CotterTim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever 41119413103
Reposted by Nick CotterPaul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star. 282182620
Reposted by Nick CotterRichard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Back in the mid-20th century, they predicted we'd be living in a utopia by now. And they were right, we are. The only detail they omitted was that it's a sociopath's idea of a utopia. 6656
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026“Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to you.”sockpuppet.orgHow To Write With An LLMTwo rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work. 000
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve just been asked if we should save the rest of the wine until tomorrow 010
Reposted by Nick CotterCrowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026its so cool that you can't be disabled until you're 25, modern neoliberal science is magic www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comWelfare changes under debate include ending key disability benefit for under-25sExclusive: Plan under discussion involves intensive package of support to help young people into employment 512435
Reposted by Nick CotterBrandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp... 5052552319
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026“They are attempts to face, or circumvent, what we now call the meaning crisis, something that would not dissipate even in a best-case scenario of fully automated luxury communism”burningshore.comMachines of Loving GracePlus News and Notes 000
Reposted by Nick CotterB. Prendergast @renderg.host · 01/10/2026Courting the AfD *specifically* is no accident. It is a growth strategy. The logic is cynical and purely commercial. A new network with no real audience needs reach, speed and engagement from day one, and far-right accounts deliver all three. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 053
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026Drop some PUNCHES 👊 🖤 🤕static.klipy.comStirring Festive Fruit PunchAlt: Stirring Festive Fruit Punch 021
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026I live in rural myself and I’ve never seen her. Maybe she goes to a different rural. 040
Reposted by Nick CotterJP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life 30950149
Reposted by Nick CotterBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026“Infinite personalized music” was already solved, it’s called learning to play an instrument 2592487
Reposted by Nick CotterDjamila Knopf @djamilaknopf.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I painted floating rain spirits. medium: Schmincke Horadam gouache 12847254
Reposted by Nick CotterMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17171611964
Nick Cotter @ecstaticdisregard.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026Some trees and last winter’s logs still to be processed 010
